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JKMM Architects complete Dance House Helsinki

JKMM Architects complete Dance House Helsinki | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
The Finnish capital’s new industrial-scale venue – Dance House Helsinki – has its own architectural rhythms Photography by Hannu Rytky Words by Lee Marable Almost nine decades after renowned Finnish dancer Maggie Gripenberg first proposed a dedicated space
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The stories that reveal the soul of Ukraine - BBC Culture

The stories that reveal the soul of Ukraine - BBC Culture | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
The history of Ukrainian literature reflects the country's tragic conflicts, its diverse population, and the people's distinctive humour, writes John Self.
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Thao Nguyen Phan – 'My reflections on the history of Vietnam, the poetry of daily life' | Tate

Step inside the studio of artist Thao Nguyen Phan and discover her mesmerising, poetic work. Through video, paintings and sculpture, Phan explores the historical and ecological issues facing her homeland Vietnam, while speaking to broader ideas around tradition, ideology, ritual and environmental change.

Her recent projects have expanded on ‘the beauty and suffering’ of the Mekong River, which runs through Tibet, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia before meeting the sea on the coast of Vietnam.

Phan’s latest moving image work First Rain, Brise Soleil continues this exploration of the Mekong, proposing a new way of being that draws on indigenous knowledge and respect for the ecosystem.

You can see Phan’s artworks on display at Tate St Ives until 2 May 2022 https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/thao-nguyen-phan

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Norway May Be Dark These Days, But Never Fear—Oslo’s Art Scene Is as Luminous as the Northern Lights

Norway May Be Dark These Days, But Never Fear—Oslo’s Art Scene Is as Luminous as the Northern Lights | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
NetJets, the global leader in private aviation, works with the industry’s most experienced pilots, specializing in their aircraft type.
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Mandala Lab | Rubin Museum of Art

Mandala Lab | Rubin Museum of Art | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine how you might have…
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Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color | Pace Gallery

Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color | Pace Gallery | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
A new Agnes Martin exhibition in New York featuring a range of paintings from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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10 of the World’s Weirdest Museums

10 of the World’s Weirdest Museums | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it

These treasure troves around the globe will satisfy your strangest curiosities.


"Picture of a scuba diver at the Cancun Underwater Sculpture Museum (MUSA) in Cancun, Mexico
A diver drifts over a submerged vehicle at MUSA, the underwater museum of contemporary art in Cancun, Mexico.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MAURICIO COLLADO, XINHUA/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO 


What turns an ordinary object into something extraordinary? Put it in a museum. No matter how seemingly odd or mundane, objects offer us windows into history and connect us to our past. They expose our darkest preoccupations, most brilliant ideas, and the limitless creativity of the human mind."

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Top 20 Most Colourful Places in the World

Top 20 Most Colourful Places in the World | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Bucketlist at the ready! From Canada to China, WOW has named the 20 most colorful places in the world you have to visit in your lifetime.
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Australia: Step Inside a Swirling Mirror Room of Interactive Ocean Vortices by teamLab

Australia: Step Inside a Swirling Mirror Room of Interactive Ocean Vortices by teamLab | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
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Experienced Team Lab @ Pace Gallery London in 2017.  Could have stayed in a trance all day! 
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Isolated Facades Stand Precariously in the Twilight by Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy

Isolated Facades Stand Precariously in the Twilight by Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
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Lisbon: City of Books

Lisbon: City of Books | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it

"I always thought the title "City of Books" belonged to Paris or Dublin, but now I've visited Lisbon. In four days I only scanned the first page but I sense volumes more beneath. Let me set the scene: This is a city where the first time tourist needs a 3D map."

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A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses

A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Today I opened my computer and typed in my chosen search words of the day: "abandoned greenhouse". Little did I know how many photographs I was about to scroll through. So many, too many! Why is that? Surely we still all eat greens and enjoy decorating our houses with them. Why have so many of these

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36 Hours in Bangkok

36 Hours in Bangkok | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
From upstart creative spaces and obscure bars to neighborhoods where a surprising urban tranquillity reigns, Bangkok remains ripe for discovery.
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Bangkok. Often spoken about with affection by those fortunate enough to have visited/lived in the City of Angels. Somewhere so familiar to many, yet still full of new discoveries! 
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The Annual ‘Women Street Photographers’ Exhibition Highlights the Images Changing the Genre

The Annual ‘Women Street Photographers’ Exhibition Highlights the Images Changing the Genre | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Since 2017, a multi-faceted initiative has celebrated hundreds of street photographers whose work develops and expands the boundaries of what's historically been a male-dominated field. The project of Gulnara Samoilova, Women Street Photographers connects the widespread and deeply personal by highli
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Showing now , April 22, Manhattan. 
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Family affair: the Collection of Jacqueline Matisse Monnier | Christie's

Family affair: the Collection of Jacqueline Matisse Monnier | Christie's | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Jackie Matisse inherited paintings and drawings by her famous grandfather Henri but also collected works by her gilded circle of friends, which included some of the 20th century’s greatest artists | Christie's’
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The dynamism of Italian Futurism | Boccioni | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS

Hannah Levine manager of patron programs in the Department of Membership, takes a stance—quite literally—in praise of the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni’s dynamic sculpture "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space."

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Estudio Herreros-designed Munch museum opens in Oslo

Estudio Herreros-designed Munch museum opens in Oslo | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
The aluminium-wrapped vertical structure on the Norwegian capital's waterfront provides expansive spaces for the iconic artist's work Words by Will Jennings When Oslo’s opera house opened in 2008 and people discovered they could climb up and across
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Brittle Skeletons Crocheted from Discarded Textiles by Caitlin McCormack

Brittle Skeletons Crocheted from Discarded Textiles by Caitlin McCormack | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
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" Philadelphia-based artist Caitlin McCormack continues to explore the decay and remains of once-living things in her intricate crochet work. McCormick constructs her pieces using a labor intensive process that involves stiffening discarded textile materials with enamel paint to create brittle bone-like material. She then crochets fantastical intertwined skeletons of humans, birds, snakes, devils, and two-headed bats, which are displayed with stark black backdrops, glass cases, and lathed bases that reference old-fashioned displays for scientific specimens.

Her new show, Lazarus Taxa, refers to the paleontological concept of species that disappear and reappear in the fossil record. Lazarus Taxa is currently on display at Paradigm Gallery + Studio. '

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Slow Living in Corsica  in 2021

Slow Living in Corsica  in 2021 | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
The human warmth and connection that is Corsica . 
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The joys of slow living on a French Island. Regardless of a global pandemic. 
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Slomo - Video - NYTimes.com

Slomo - Video - NYTimes.com | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Dr. John Kitchin quit a medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diego’s Pacific Beach. He calls himself “Slomo.”
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Louise Bourgeois. The Red Sky — Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

Louise Bourgeois. The Red Sky — Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
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Magical Towering Castles Made with Icicles

Magical Towering Castles Made with Icicles | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Igloos and ice hotels we've seen in the past were typically constructed with a mixture of ice blocks and snow, but inventive designer Brent Christensen fou
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An Astonishingly Small Stone Carving That Has the Power to Change Art History

An Astonishingly Small Stone Carving That Has the Power to Change Art History | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
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Paris , Le Pantheon daki olağanüstü performans

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Turner Prize nominee Rosalind Nashashibi: 'Gaza was under a spell'

Turner Prize nominee Rosalind Nashashibi: 'Gaza was under a spell' | Beyond London Life | Scoop.it
Rosalind Nashashibi has deserved a Turner Prize nomination for years. In 2009, I, like many people, thought her ICA exhibition made her a shoe-in for the following year’s list but it didn’t happen. Now, after a period in which she has steadily continued to make poetic and quietly political films, everything has come at once for the 44-year-old Croydon-born artist.
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